2018 was a challenging year for me in many aspects of my life but overall I would describe it as a strengthening experience. That as a fact took a toll on my blogging activity. This year I had only 26 new posts, but it was the year that this blog had the most views since 2015 by far. I wanted to share an input on what attracted your interest mostly this year.

As it can easily be seen the common thing in all these posts is that they all are from 2015. Also 3 out of 5 are related to film cameras and analogue photography. The other 2 are travel blogs , photos from trips with my camera.

Greece entered WW2 at 28th of Oct 1940, after the Italians demanded surrender and Ioannis Metaxas answered “NO”. This small word was the united Greek Nation’s answer from the same moment. My grandfather was listed immediately From Koroni to Kalamata and then Athens. The first photo is from Athens (date unknown), the Second is from Albania at the 11th of Nov 1940, just 10 days after the declaration of war. He send my grandmother Dimitra the 2nd photo with a short note on the back. “My Dearest Dimitra I send you my photo for remembering me your husband, Nikolaos Douralas” 1940_Nov_7th

1st Photo is from Athens before leaving for the Albanian Frontier

Photo from the Albanian front 1940 Nov 7th

I would like to celebrate this National Day by remembering those who fought against all odds for our freedom. I hope we get inspired by them today.

More than 15 days Ago I had a nice morning walk with my son, where I had my D7200 and he had the Nikon F75 with him to capture anything he felt interesting on Kodak ProImage 100 film. Here are some shots from his film scanned with Epson V550 and processed in LR6.

Here are some images taken as a part of a testing of the adapted lens on the particular body. 90% of the photos where taken at the same August day in a “flash/quick” wasteful photo shoo around a country house at Chiliadou. Images scanned from negative in Epson V550 and with the small help of LR6. 2 Photos where processed to B&W.

I am extremely happy with the results, and definitely gonna “waste” a lot more film…

Here is an image i managed to save from an underexposed, aged,nearly 40 years old film negative from a trip of my dad as a captain to Then Soviet Union’s Leningrad today’s Saint Petersburg.

V550 and Lightroom was used. I love the colors it was sunrise and my dad as a total photo amateur couldn’t capture what his eyes saw. An Ice breaker on the side, smoke from the factories, may cargo ships in line….